Since 2006, there has been a marked decline in the population who believe in global warming. The latest polls on global warming are saying that there are between 20 and 25 percent less people that believe in the phenomenon. Cooler temperatures across the board over the past few years have changed the thought process of many people, and it appears to have gotten to the point that a lot of people do not know what to think anymore. In other words, global warming is becoming a hard-sell proposition.
I am not the type of person who bucks the will of the people, unless there is solid factual evidence to do so. And that is what concerns me the most because in virtually every scientific scenario put together global warming is proven to be real.
The first clue that it’s real is that the current presidential administration believes it to be so. Think about this: when our president is being advised by some of the greatest scientific minds of our time, such as Steven Chu, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco, and they tell him based on facts and figures that global warming is real, what’s not to believe? That would be akin to telling BMW that they don’t know a thing about making cars.
The second clue is based on hard-core statistics. Many might argue that this is some natural fluctuation, but facts and figures confirm that there is nothing natural about this. The truth is that there has been an 87 percent increase in human-made greenhouse gasses since the beginning of the industrial revolution, which started at the end of the 1700’s. The shocking point of that statistic is that, 37 percent of that human-made increase has occurred over the last 10 years!
As we know now, the principle greenhouse gasses are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated types of gas. Although carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas that always makes the news, the fluorinated gasses are far more insidious. These are the gasses that eat away at our ozone layer which then allows unfiltered sunlight to come streaming through the atmosphere. The radiation from every ray of our sun adds an incredible amount of heat to the planet, and then other greenhouse gasses, particularly carbon dioxide, traps these sun rays inside of our atmosphere like a quilted blanket.
Because the earth has been heated up in this way, the air can now hold in more water vapor, which is classified as another type of greenhouse gas. Water vapor adds humidity and that humidity once again, works like a blanket to trap in even more heat, and the cycle propagates itself.
These facts are considered the basics of global warming, and as anyone should be able to see, nothing about it is natural in any sense of the word. Any argument or discussions about this being a purely natural effect must take into consideration the man-made effect of dumping carbon fueled emissions into the atmosphere.
Above all else remember that three of the most prominent scientists on the planet have devoted themselves to the study of global warming. They say it is real, and with that information, so does the president of the United States. Because Action speaks louder than words, and because human made actions are the basis for global warming, the facts of the matter speak for them selves, and this humble Green Guy won’t dispute the finding of some of the greatest scientific minds of our times.
Source: BecauseAction.com
